The first step in reversing the devastating decline of the family—probably the greatest source of inequality in America—is to start expressing a clear preference, in speech, for two biological (or adoptive) parents.

Nearly eight years ago, Joseph McNamara, former police chief of Kansas City and San Jose, warned that police culture was changing for the worse—as it was shifting away from the notion that the police’s fundamental duty is to protect human life.

The New York Times and other advocates of marijuana legalization are peddling fictional claims about addiction while ignoring the clear warnings of current science, which shows that pot-smoking actually changes the brains of users—especially young users—in a way that alcohol does not.

Bill Kristol hosts a series of in-depth conservations with Leon and Amy Kass, Harvey Mansfield, and Elliott Abrams about the great questions at the core of human society, constitutional government, and the fate of the American experiment.

It’s time for political leaders to start speaking out on the damaging effects of marijuana on the lives of individuals and on society as a whole, rather than standing idly by while the rush to legalization weakens our social condition.